Or, Lucinda, you sorry sack of excretement, maybe she actually BELIEVES it and holds dear those religious beliefs. Who on earth is being the intolerant one?
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
Posted on 09/03/2009 9:03:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
Christian girl ordered to attend public schoolMom's religious views ripped by court
By Julia Duin
A New Hampshire court ordered a home-schooled Christian girl to attend a public school this week after a judge criticized the "rigidity" of her mother's religious views and said the 10-year-old needed to consider other worldviews as she matures.
Ever since the judge's ruling came out in July, the case has aroused the interest of home-schooling groups nationwide, whohave asked why a court has the power to decide whether someone's religious views are too extreme.
The girl's mother, Brenda Voydatch, has engaged the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., to contest the ruling, in which the judge granted a request by the girl's father, Martin Kurowski, that the girl go to a public school.
On Tuesday, the girl, Amanda Kurowski, started fifth grade at an elementary school in Meredith, N.H., under court order. Amanda's "vigorous defense of her religious beliefs ... suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view," District Court Judge Lucinda V. Sadler said.
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So much for separation of church and state....
We live in interesting times. An opportunity to reassert our constitutional religious freedoms and hopefully revisit the idea of church and state.
This judge hopefully will find he has over reached.
And it makes you wonder how long it will be before the first shot is fired. So sad.
Nice going ‘Dad’. Get your daughter put in a public school. That’ll show your ex-wife.
First Amendment: REVOKED!
Or, Lucinda, you sorry sack of excretement, maybe she actually BELIEVES it and holds dear those religious beliefs. Who on earth is being the intolerant one?
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Broken home, broken lives. And now the court is dictating to the custodial parent how the child should be educated.
I'd really like to know more about the parents and the particular faith before I commented on this.
But I can tell you for sure without knowing more than I do, that I don't like the court deciding the educational avenue the parents should have a right to choose for their children.
It just doesn't sound like the US of A that I grew up in.
The Puritans sailed from England bound for the New World in search of the opportunity to have freedom to practice their (choice of) religion.
if the father said he wanted her to go to a mainstream private school, I could understand. But don’t make kids the ward of the state.
Amanda really does have the sperm donor pegged.
If the mother in this situation simply moved out of state would it be possible to escape this order?
Would she have made the same ruling with a Muslim family - I think not.
The court is not “dictating to the custodial parent how the child should be educated.” As I understand it, both parents in this case share joint legal custody (though the mother maintains primary physical custody). The two custodial parents disagree on how to educate the child and, as part of their divorce, agreed to submit such disagreements to the court.
This isn’t a church-state issue, and it isn’t an issue of the court stepping in unnecessarily to tell a religious parent how to raise her child. It is a dispute between two divorced parents, decided by the court on terms agreed to by both parents.
Why do you call him the “sperm donor”? To me, this line makes it look like Amanda’s mother is trying to use her religious teaching to turn Amanda against her father.
I suppose this Judge also thinks its a bad thing that a parent would want to keep their child free from exposure to drugs, ebola, plague, and other 'opportunities'...
Yes, the mother wants to bring up her daughter in a Christian environment and she doesn't appreciate people who would want to attack her beliefs at her young age. How unreasonable...
God save us from these judges who want to play god...
AND WHO DECIDES WHEN THE COURT’S VIEWS ARE TOO EXTREME???
The same prohibition on making Christianity (or a demonination of Christianity) the established State religion also prohibits the State from restricting that free exercise of a Christian faith.
By REQUIRING her child to be “exposed” to other faiths, they are seeking to “delegitimize” the faith.
The State can only make this imposition if they expose ALL children in public schools to ALL faiths.
This is judicial tyranny and against parental rights and religious liberty.
True, the mother wants to bring her daughter up in a Christian environment. But, the father wants the child to be exposed to other views. Why is the mother’s opinion any more valid?
This isn’t a case where the judge is playing god. This is a case where the judge was deciding a dispute between two divorced parents. It’s an unfortunate case, because there can be no compromise (mother wants to homeschool, nothing else; father wants public school, nothing else; there’s no middle ground), but it’s not a case of a judge overstepping her authority...
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